Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!wasatch!uplherc!wicat!sarek!gsarff From: gsarff@sarek.UUCP (Gary Sarff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: digiview -> IFF Message-ID: <00307@sarek.UUCP> Date: 5 Sep 89 03:13:09 GMT References: <2514@hp-sdd.hp.com> Organization: Programmers in Exile Lines: 29 In article <2514@hp-sdd.hp.com>, tony@hp-sdd.hp.com (Tony Parkhurst) writes: >In article MSW@mplvax.sri.com (Mark S. Williams) writes: >>I got the Neptune pictures from Stanford and uncompressed them on my >>amiga. Now what do I do - I don't have DigiView. Is there some way to >>convert a DigiView picture to IFF? > >uuuuuuuhh... Well, actually, DigiView pictures ARE in IFF format, they just >aren't immediately displayable because they use 21 planes of direct color, >insted of 1 to 6 planes indexed. I believe that the Neptune pictures are >in GIF format (at least the ones I got were), so you need a GIF to IFF >converter, and as someone pointed out, these pics are monocrome, and 256 >levels of grey, so they probably won't display well on the amiga. I printed >them out directly with the full 256 levels of gray, and they are pretty neat. >Just needs some color. > >-- Tony I have been using the new sliced-ham viewer and it's related programs (giftotmp, supercon2, shamview) to view the neptune gif pictures, (I got neptune1-7, clouds, and one other. I didn't get my pictures from Stanford, and mine were GIF format.) There was a nice color one of neptune I got off of PeopleLink (framegrabbed from live CNN broadcast, that is where I got the sliced-ham programs also.) Anyone having problems with the pictures, take heart. They do seem to work, if you can get them masticated into a format you amiga will digest. If Stanford has raw bitmaps it might be easier to get those. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The best swords can cut you and you don't even know you have been cut until you start to bleed.